Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.

* While a president’s party traditionally struggles in a second midterm election cycle, Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina, the new chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, raised expectations about the party’s 2026 prospects. “The math is in our favor,” he boasted this week. “We’re on offense.”

* In Pennsylvania, a Democratic state representative died earlier this week. As a result, the state House is divided evenly between Republicans and Democrats, 101-101. A special election to fill the vacancy left by the late Rep. Matt Gergely’s passing has not been scheduled.

* During the president’s first post-inaugural television interview, Donald Trump boasted to Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he won young voters last fall “by 36 points.” It’s a claim he has repeated incessantly in recent weeks, and it remains completely untrue.

* There are only 10 weeks remaining before voters in Wisconsin participate in another state Supreme Court election, and Judge Susan Crawford launched a seven-figure ad buy this week in support of her candidacy.

* New Jersey is one of two states that will hold gubernatorial elections this year, but an Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill poll found that there’s no clear front-runner, and a majority of voters in both parties remain undecided. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy is term-limited and cannot run for a third term. (Click the link for more information on the poll’s methodology and margin of error.)

* Speaking of 2025 contests, Bolts magazine published overviews on this year’s races that will help shape criminal justice policy and voting rights policy in a variety of states.

* And in South Carolina, there was some recent scuttlebutt about Rep. Nancy Mace launching a Republican primary campaign against Sen. Lindsey Graham, but the GOP congresswoman told The Associated Press that she’s “seriously considering” a gubernatorial run in 2026.